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Fallin' - Bobby Sykes
Mar. 20th, 2013 09:24 am( TW: Rape )
This poem makes me uncomfortable. It seems to make certain truth claims about rape and sexual violence which I find difficult to credit - rape was not invented by white folks. BUT. Everything I do know about violence and social disorder in Indigenous communities in Australia shows a pretty clear connection between the disempowerment of the colonised and subsequent internal violence. *shrug* I'm pretty certain the poem was SUPPOSED to make me uncomfortable, after all.
And this concludes your program of selections from the Oxford Book of Australian Women's Verse ed. by Susan Lever. Onwards to... er, something else.
This poem makes me uncomfortable. It seems to make certain truth claims about rape and sexual violence which I find difficult to credit - rape was not invented by white folks. BUT. Everything I do know about violence and social disorder in Indigenous communities in Australia shows a pretty clear connection between the disempowerment of the colonised and subsequent internal violence. *shrug* I'm pretty certain the poem was SUPPOSED to make me uncomfortable, after all.
And this concludes your program of selections from the Oxford Book of Australian Women's Verse ed. by Susan Lever. Onwards to... er, something else.